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One or two cases of child neglect I have had to report to the
N. S. P. C. C. and I have also referred several cases to the Relieving
Officer for relief.
Any sanitary defects found by me during my visits, I have
reported to the Inspector for the District.
I am, Sir,
Yours obediently,
E. A. McCleverty,
H. W. Roberts, Esq., Health Visitor.
Medical Officer of Health.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
The following diseases are classified by the Registrar General
under this heading:—Small Pox, Scarlet Fever, Measles, Diphtheria,
Whooping Cough,"Fever" (Typhus, Enteric and Continued) Diarrhoea,
Plague. The zymotic diseases caused 205 deaths, as compared with
194, 164 and 154 in the three preceding years.
The death rate from zymotic diseases was 1.71, and for the three
preceding years 1.63, 1.37 and 1.33.
The zymotic death rate for England and Wales was 0.99, for the
76 great towns l.23,for the 136 smaller towns 0.88,and for the County
of London as a whole 1.14.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The number of cases notified during the year under the provisions
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, was 692, as
compared with 963, 1,131 and 1,248 for the three preceding years.
Table No. 3 shows the total number received during the year,
the number of cases in each district, also the number removed to
hospital from each district.
SMALL POX.
I am glad to say there was no case of this disease notified
during the year.
SCARLET FEVER,
The 302 notifications received during the year related to 300
cases, of these 30 were errors of diagnosis and cases which occurred
in hospital, thus reducing the net number of cases to 270. The
number of cases during the three past years was 362, 723 and 741,